Cities and Memory - remixing the world
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Cities and Memory remixes the world, one sound at a time - a global collaboration between artists and sound recordists all over the world.

The project presents an amazingly-diverse array of field recordings from all over the world, but also reimagined, recomposed versions of those recordings as we go on a mission to remix the world.

What you'll hear in the podcast are our latest sounds - either a field recording from somewhere in the world, or a remixed new composition based solely on those sounds. Each podcast description tells you more about what you're hearing, and where it came from.

There are more than 6,000 sounds featured on our sound map, spread over more than 120 countries and territories. The sounds cover parts of the world as diverse as the hubbub of San Francisco’s main station, traditional fishing women’s songs at Lake Turkana, the sound of computer data centres in Birmingham, spiritual temple chanting in New Taipei City or the hum of the vaporetto engines in Venice. You can explore the project in full at www.citiesandmemory.com

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory
Arts
6008 episodes / 2.04M listens
Sports sounds
  1. The queue
  2. Djokovic vs. Hurkacz on Centre Court
  3. On court at Wimbledon
  4. Striving
Nightlife sounds
  1. Da Lat evening karaoke
  2. Arcade chaos
  3. A Saturday night in Testaccio
  4. Piazza scene
Harbours, ships and boats
  1. Lagoon of secrets
  2. Boat traffic in the lagoon, Venice
  3. Tsim Sha Shui Star ferry, Hong Kong
  4. Dawn smoke on distant seas
Hamburg sounds
  1. S-bahn train travels in and out of Ohlsdorf station
  2. Ohlsdorf S-bahn, Alan Bleay remix
  3. Creaking bridge at Landungsbruecken, Hamburg
  4. An der Alster, Hamburg
Funfairs
  1. The Toy Horse Derby
  2. St. Giles Fair, Oxford - the Kentucky Derby
  3. Funfair - the sound that keeps the action going
  4. Fairground generators - ambient remix
Florence
  1. Climbing the campanile, Florence
  2. Giotto's campanile - remixed
  3. Basilica della Santissima Annunziata
  4. Remixed mass
Venice
  1. Acqua Alta bookshop, Venice
  2. A memory of Acqua Alta
  3. Fondamente Nuove, Venice
  4. Si/No/Oblique - a new look at Venice
Bells
  1. A light comes in the end
  2. Atonal church bells, Sete Cidades
  3. Mass bells (Andy Lyon mechanical breakdown reimagining)
  4. Christmas Eve mass bells, Padova
Travel sounds
  1. Boarding point for the ferry to Vallisaari
  2. Going to the airport
  3. All aboard the CAT
  4. Wroclaw train station ambience
Stations and airports
  1. Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road
  2. Symphony of the tinsmith
  3. The tinsmith's (Buchla) easel
  4. A glass-making demonstration in Murano
Sacred spaces
  1. Chanting monks, Chiang Mai
  2. Fall is in the air, leaves are on the ground
  3. A fleeting thought, forgotten
  4. Inside the Hallgrimskirkja
Fireworks!
  1. A sister vessel
  2. In the skies above Xiuwu County
  3. Fireworks in the village
  4. Massive fireworks display, New Year's Eve
Storms
  1. Rain song
  2. Tropical rain and thunder under a roof
  3. Hurricane Harvey (Andy Lyon reimagining)
  4. Hurricane Harvey
Shops and markets
  1. Early morning Valencian bakery ambience
  2. Packing away the market
  3. Morning bakery (Andy Lyon reimagining)
  4. Busy market in Burkina Faso
The birds
  1. Lark
  2. Skylark descending
  3. Ravens 2023
  4. Yellow-chested birds, Bermuda
Crickets and cicadas
  1. Autumnal drift
  2. Cicada countryside, Thailand
  3. Cicadian rhythms
  4. Cicadas in Wollongong, Australia
Museums & libraries
  1. Exploring the art fair, Madison
  2. Common sensory overload
  3. Video installation at Home, Manchester
  4. The conjuror
Water
  1. Midnight waves on a beach
  2. Late summer afternoon on the beach
  3. Sea at full moon (LA mix)
  4. Already I have told you about the wide rivers
Musical field recordings
  1. Il est entré dans mon coeur
  2. La Vie En Rose and looping guitars
  3. Songs of time
  4. Masai Mara women's blessing song
Cape Town
  1. Valkenberg bird sanctuary, Cape Town.
  2. Valkenberg bird sanctuary - memory version
  3. Sea Point promenade, Cape Town
  4. Sea Point promenade - Memory version